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SICSAL International: We Are Deeply Pained by the Situation in Gaza

January 17, 2009
SICSAL International: We Are Deeply Pained by the Situation in Gaza

The year 2009 began with a profound economic crisis, which always weighs most heavily on the poorest of the poor, and with the bombing of Gaza by Israel. We are witnesses of the situation in which people live in the occupied territories of Palestine. Their inhabitants live like prisoners in their own land. We...
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Open Letter to Obama: Afro-Colombian Victims Speak Out

January 16, 2009
Open Letter to Obama: Afro-Colombian Victims Speak Out

MR. BARACK H. OBAMA President-elect of the United States of America On behalf of our African-descendant organizations and communities, of the ancestral land of Africa bringing us together and from which we were brought as slaves and we now share a legacy in the territories of the Americas in the search for freedom and...
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Open Letter to Obama from Colombia

December 16, 2008

SIGN LETTER TO OBAMA ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN COLOMBIA The staff of 8th Day Center has been working with partners in Colombia for more than ten years to stop human rights abuses in that country. To this end, the staff has traveled to Colombia seven times to learn, first-hand, about the struggle of the...
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SICSAL-USA / EPICA November Solidarity Tour

December 14, 2008

Colombia Human Rights Tour in November Last month, SICSAL-USA / EPICA hosted a month-long tour throughout the United States of a Colombian human rights activist, Abilio Pena, who received two death threats over the summer. Abilio works with the Inter-ecclesial Commission for Human Rights accompanying a dozen different struggles of Afro-colombian and indigenous communities...
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Open Letter to Obama from Japan

December 13, 2008

December, 2008 Letter to President elect Barack Obama:   Dear Mr. President elect Barack Obama: We extend our sincere congratulations and heartfelt enthusiasm that American people have made a historic option of electing you as the 44th President of the United States of America. Your promise of CHANGE is truly needed to heal from...
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